A piston of mass M is hung from a massless spring whose restoring
force law goes as
, where k is the spring constant of appropriate dimension. The piston separates the vertical chamber into two parts, where the bottom part is filled with '
' moles of an ideal gas. An external work is done on the gas isothermally (at a constant temperature T ) with the help of a heating filament (with negligible volume) mounted in lower part of the chamber, so that the piston goes up from a height
to
, the total energy delivered by the filament is (Assume spring to be in its natural length before heating)

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Total energy supplied
gravitational potential energy + spring potential energy + work done by gas







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